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You clearly don't understand farming - it only works when water is free. If you make them pay 0.1% of what residential customers pay, farms will go bancrupt. B
by ClumsyPilot 4y ago
You clearly don't understand farming - it only works when water is free.
If you make them pay 0.1% of what residential customers pay, farms will go bancrupt. Because the volumes of water required are so enormous. You could improbe efficiency 2x or 3x, but ir won't matter financially
Thatswhy water desalination doesnt work for farming
- SR2Z 4y agoAlmonds are a classic example of an extremely water-hungry crop, with 1lb of almonds taking 1600 gallons of water to grow. My water bill, in SF, is $0.0123/gal. Now, 1600gal × 0.0123$/gal × 0.001 is about 2 cents. If farms were forced to pay my water rates, a pound of almonds would be $19.68 more expensive - but they would be paying at worst 10% of what I pay, because they wouldn't need potable water or urban plumbing. I am going to ask that you provide sources for your claim, because it seems ridiculous.
- ClumsyPilot 4y agoYour math is right, but conclusion is wrong - wholesale almonds go for $1 - $1.5 per pound, and farmer gets a fraction of that. Yourl are talking about the privlce going up 10x. Even if its 10%, you are more than doubling the price at farm gate.
- SR2Z 4y agoThe price seems to be somewhere between $2.5 to $3/lb now: https://www.selinawamucii.com/insights/prices/united-states-of-america/almonds/ https://www.selinawamucii.com/insights/prices/united-states-... In any case, doubling the price of almonds is exactly the kind of change I'd expect to see if water was charged fairly. It's one of the worst offenders - if farmers have built their business models around free water during a historic set of droughts, their business models are fundamentally unsustainable and it's the government's duty to fix the pricing sooner rather than later.